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Voter ID at 82%: Jim Pfaff on the Save America Act Fight | Jul 21, 2026

Published: July 21, 2026
Network: Real America’s Voice (The Steve Gruber Show)
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff

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Eighty-two percent of the country supports voter ID. Host Steve Gruber laid out the numbers on Real America’s Voice: more than 90% of Republicans, 70% of Democrats, and 80% of independents back it. The only people rejecting it sit on Capitol Hill. Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff joined Gruber on July 21, 2026 to explain why Washington fights an 80% issue, why Senator Elissa Slotkin said the quiet part out loud about the Save America Act, and how 20 years of voting-law changes broke a 230-year gold standard.

Topics Covered

• Voter ID: The 82% Issue Only Washington Rejects
• Slotkin’s Admission and the 230-Year Gold Standard
• From Palm Beach County to 35-Day Counts
• The Worst Manipulation: 2020 Law Changes Without Legislatures
• The Path Back: The House Moves on the Save America Act
• Key Takeaways

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Voter ID: The 82% Issue Only Washington Rejects

Gruber opened with the polling, and the numbers leave no room for spin.

“voter ID is supported by more than 90% of Republicans, 70% of Democrats, 80% of independents”
— Steve Gruber, Host, Real America’s Voice

Pfaff’s response cut to the absurdity of it: only in Washington, D.C. do you find a group of people totally against an 80% issue with the American people — Democrats on Capitol Hill, plus a handful of Republicans. There used to be a time in this country when an 80% issue meant Congress charged it through. Everybody did it in a nonpartisan way because they all wanted to be on the right side of it.

Pfaff pointed to the 1990s as proof. On immigration issues in general, everybody was on the right side then, because the American people had already gotten past it after the 1986 deal Ronald Reagan made — and they did not want to go back. That is why Pfaff calls this one easy: Donald Trump will go down as a president who held the pleasure of the American people because he takes the issues they care about seriously.

Slotkin’s Admission and the 230-Year Gold Standard

Gruber recounted a statement from Senator Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, made to a gathering of people: if the Save America Act ever passes, Democrats won’t win another election. The act includes the ID requirement and proof of citizenship. Gruber called it remarkable that she said it out loud. Pfaff explained exactly why she said it.

“Well, and that’s because it would take our elections back to the gold standard they were for 230 years of our history.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Do the math on that number. In America’s 250th year, Pfaff is pointing at the last 20 years as the aberration. For 230 years, the way this country ran elections was the standard the rest of the world envied. Slotkin’s warning only makes sense if her party’s electoral success depends on the departures from that standard — the same departures the Save America Act reverses.

From Palm Beach County to 35-Day Counts

Pfaff walked through the history that most people forget. In the 1990s, the rise of the religious right — his former boss Dr. James Dobson, along with Chuck Colson, D. James Kennedy, and Jerry Falwell — encouraged Christians to get involved in the political sphere. That influence showed in 1994, and by 2000 it was a strong charge.

Then came Florida. Democrats were furious about George W. Bush winning in 2000 on what they felt was the Supreme Court dictating the outcome. But Pfaff points to what happened in Palm Beach County, the notable county in Florida that year: games were being played on a small scale to try to keep Florida and get Al Gore elected. It didn’t work — and the response to that failure reshaped two decades of election law.

Since that time, Mark Elias, Norm Eisen, and the whole Obama machine once it came on board have worked — mostly through legal means, plus the compliance of some states — to interject third-world election processes into American voting. Pfaff gave the concrete example: this country had same-day voting until at least 2004. Now California counts ballots for 35 days, as it did at the recent primary. That was never the case before in California. It is not the case anywhere else in the world.

Gruber added the receipts from the other side’s own mouth: he played a soundbite of Kamala Harris demanding paper ballots in 2019 — because Russia cannot change a paper ballot. Neither can China. That is not ancient history, and it demolishes the claim that questioning election machinery is fringe behavior.

The Worst Manipulation: 2020 Law Changes Without Legislatures

Pfaff is precise about what he can and cannot prove. He cannot prove the machines have been manipulated. But we do know that they can be — and the intelligence community knew it. Gruber cited documents released by the president the previous Thursday on machines that can be manipulated, alongside mass mail-in ballots. Pfaff added a warning: don’t underestimate the fact that many of these Democrats were connected with Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro for years. They knew what was going on down there.

Then he named the real crime — and it isn’t the machines.

“the worst manipulation is just changing the voting laws in 2020 without the compliance of state legislatures against the Constitution. That was an unconstitutional move in the handful of states that did it.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

The Constitution puts election law in the hands of state legislatures. In 2020, a handful of states changed the rules without them. Add long voting periods where no one even has custody of the ballots, and you have manipulation that never gets labeled fraud under law — because, as Pfaff put it, nothing is called legally fraud in California.

Pfaff also dismantled the whataboutism he hears from fellow conservatives. One told him that if you think the machines are bad, look at ballots going bad in Chicago. Pfaff’s answer: those problems occurred on a very small scale, and elections were never perfect. The one time small-scale ballot games carried national weight was 1960, with Kennedy getting elected. Today’s problem is structural, statewide, and legal on paper — which makes it worse, not better.

The Path Back: The House Moves on the Save America Act

The fix already has a name, and Pfaff closed the segment with it.

“Save America Act will change that so we can go back to where we were when we were, you know, having the greatest elections in the world.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

There is movement. Gruber reported that Speaker Mike Johnson got part of the act through the House that very day — hope on the horizon, even if the timing runs tight for this midterm election. The Senate is where these bills go to die, as we covered in our analysis of the talking-filibuster fight over the Save America Act. That is why the 82% number matters: when voter ID and proof of citizenship carry supermajority support across both parties, every senator blocking the bill is voting against his own constituents.

Key Takeaways

1. Voter ID has 82% national support – More than 90% of Republicans, 70% of Democrats, and 80% of independents back it. The only holdouts are Democrats on Capitol Hill and a handful of Republicans.
2. Slotkin admitted the stakes – The Michigan Democrat senator said that if the Save America Act ever passes, Democrats won’t win another election. Pfaff’s answer: that is because it restores the gold standard of 230 years of American elections.
3. The machinery changed after 2000 – From Palm Beach County forward, Mark Elias, Norm Eisen, and the Obama machine used legal means and compliant states to interject third-world election processes. America had same-day voting until at least 2004; California now counts for 35 days.
4. The worst manipulation was legal – Changing voting laws in 2020 without state legislatures was unconstitutional in the handful of states that did it, and long voting periods leave ballots without custody.
5. Democrats demanded paper ballots in 2019 – Kamala Harris argued Russia cannot change a paper ballot. Neither can China. The concern about election machinery was theirs first.
6. The House is moving – Speaker Mike Johnson advanced part of the Save America Act, with its ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements, through the House the day of this broadcast.

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The Conservative Caucus is a grassroots public policy action organization, formed in 1974. Headed by President Jim Pfaff, the Caucus is committed to advancing free enterprise, limited government, and traditional values.

Originally broadcast Jul 21, 2026 on Real America’s Voice.